Egyptian company for cement products (Siegwart's) plant at Massarah, Egypt

In November 1963, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, described the Siegwart factory at Massarah, near Cairo, run by the Egyptian company for cement products: the company "had started in 1927 as a maker of concrete pipes and poles," and "It was not until 1948 that asbestos pipe production was started and, a little more than a year later, corrugated sheets."¹

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Asbestos Magazine, 1963, November 1963

• Asbestos products made: “It was not until 1948 that asbestos pipe production was started and, a little more than a year later, corrugated sheets” (Egyptian company for cement products (Siegwart's)), p. 7¹

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1963, November 1963 (November 1, 1963), p. 7.